Michael Page vs. Rudy Bears set for Bellator 140

Bellator 140 is getting a little more exciting with the addition of a welterweight battle between Michael Page and Rudy Bears.

Page (7-0 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) was recently scratched from the Bellator 134 card after suffering a cut outside his left eye. In Bears (16-13 MMA, 2-5 BMMA), he faces a man with considerably more experience who enters the bout riding a two-fight winning streak.

A source close to the event informed MMAjunkie of the bout.

Bellator 140 takes place July 17 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The main card airs on Spike TV following prelims on MMAjunkie.

Page is one of the most exciting strikers in MMA. In seven career fights he has only seen the judges’ scorecards once, a unanimous decision victory over Nah-Shon Burrell in his last outing at Bellator 128. Before being pulled from Bellator 134, Page was set as one of the cornerstones of the “British Invasion” promotion for the event.

Bears has gone 4-7 since 2011 and has not won in the Bellator cage since Bellator 32 in October 2010. Still, the well-traveled veteran will be looking to utilize some tricks he has picked up over his 29 professional bouts to upend the Page hype train.

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